3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
